AI in Action Virtual Meetup: NLP Series #3

Join us on Wednesday 23 September from 5pm CET as we are joined by three great speakers from across Germany, Ireland and the US in the third of our NLP (Natural Language Processing) meetup series.

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SPEAKERS

1. Branden Chan, ML Engineer at deepset.ai (Berlin)

Title: Neural Search: Scaling QA to thousands of documents

With recent advances in transfer learning, the performance of Question Answering models reached new heights and suddenly created a new class of industrial search applications. In this talk, Branden will explain how to fine-tune a transformer model for the task of extractive Question Answering and how to scale it to thousands of documents (Open-Domain QA). In addition to recent insights from research, he will share practical tips on how to implement State-of-the-Art systems yourself using open-source frameworks.

2. Paul Walsh, Analytics and AI Senior Manager at Accenture (Ireland)

Title: How We Won Kaggle’s COVID-19 Challenges: Relevant Factors

The Dock is Accenture's Global Innovation Center, headquartered in Dublin, where we assembled teams of researchers to help answer critical questions in the Kaggle Covid-19 data science competition. In this talk, Paul will outline how they approached the problem and used NLP and text mining techniques to develop world-beating solutions for automatically answering critical World Health Organization questions on the pandemic. Strategic and technical details will be provided along with sample code and publicly available notebooks.

3. Yizel Vizcarra, Senior Data Scientist at Autodesk (San Francisco)

Title: Supporting online community forums with NLP

Online community forums are spaces for members to share ideas, discuss interests, ask questions, and receive peer-to-peer support on a given topic. Because they are dynamic in nature and rich with context, it can be difficult to keep up to date with what is going on in an online community as both a member and a community manager. In this talk, you will learn more about using NLP to empower community members to engage with each other on new topics and improve the community manager experience.